Lake ecosystems rely on thermal structure. When extreme heat reaches deeper into the water column, it can trigger cascading ...

Big data, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, ontologies, and knowledge graphs have all made it possible for numerous new trends, technologies, and approaches in Geoinformatics ...

Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Alpine rain and snow take much longer to percolate into western U.S. streams than previously thought, adding complexity to ...

A team of geologists drilled through strange formations dotting the Great Salt Lake's drying playa, and were surprised by what they found.

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

I was invited to contribute to the Advanced Lecture Series at Tongji University, in Shanghai. These high-level, ...

En route to the asteroid system Didymos, Hera will reach its closest point to Mars on March 12. It will use the gravitational pull of the Red Planet to create a slingshot effect, accelerating the ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

On The Astounding Pop Mech Show, editors discuss the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), an organism that lived on Earth 400 million years after it formed.

Scientists have discovered a strange—and somewhat alarming—geological phenomenon: parts of Earth’s crust are slowly “dripping” deeper into the planet’s interior. This finding coincides with the ...